MAN-MILLINERS.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 151, 4 August 1883, Page 3

MAN-MILLINERS.

In a fashionable London establishment the , t lady, goes to choose her material and to be \ ; ,,-;-iatea%'urecl. r i :V *Ai skilful milliner is employed. j Whilst the dtfess is in progress, she returns to be ' : ;dfit^ed. To her surprise* the man-milliner now . r enters upon the scene. The milliner-girl knows ,' herjsuperior, and stands aside respectfully. With Hail^he .'assurance of a connoisseur, the master -Mjriuiirkß^-" Madam obviously must be taken in *Losre— a little — a shadow of a shade — so — aoj" and quickly with a pin he puts in the pleat. " Ah ! . have failed again;" turning to the nervous if JaniUiner^girl. ' 'f Do you tot perceive that Madam .. •^rioa.iiai// have a broader line here, a more ample VvfoM' there? Give me another pin — so. That V..;!frlji\dp. Lift your arm, Madam— just a little '/^^gher— so. The fold still draws too much — jK&y'vandin goes another pin. Presently the and steps, back with half -closed surveys the " subjeot " in silence. She ? got used to him — and, indeed, cannot :;J.3U^tp ;B^eipg^ by the effect in the long glass, that $ vetery t^ch tells, and that the fellow knows his 'tl>^Bi|i^^fell< ; Then lie approaches meditatively, ■ ;sjtisQs£bffii:bb&piia.- and thoughtfully replaces • 'atiopor,- Wii^Upg ilow between; his teeth. The J&SgpJ^.^l&^i^^ißy'r ;^tw<i^U2?i>V/tlis^.-: »» thl? way, he '■pin^'withouii.

horse *wilJhdut hissing.' She puts up witii' it.' ; OXo rudness is meant, and ■ the whole thing is so unusual and strange to her that a little, more or less, as things 'have gone so far, cannot much matter. And then, as many others have practically thought before her, the end justifies the means. And the end ia undoubtedly such a fitting dress as she has, perhaps, never had before. "Worth or not Worth," a lady exclaimed after the operation just described, "the man was worth a dozen of those fumbling milr liners — did everything in half the time,, and did it twice as well."